Birthright Quotes

“[She] knew there were women who worked successfully out of the home. They ran businesses, created empires and managed to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children who went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard or became world-renowned concert pianists. Possibly both.

These women accomplished all this while cooking gourmet meals, furnishing their homes with Italian antiques, giving clever, intelligent interviews with Money magazine and People, and maintaining a brilliant marriage with an active enviable sex life and never tipping the scale at an ounce over their ideal weight...

She knew those women were out there. If she'd had a gun, she'd have hunted every last one of them down and shot them like rabid dogs for the good of womankind.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“You two with those assholes digging around by Simon’s Hole?”

Jake squeezed bright yellow mustard on his burger. “That’s right. In fact, we’re the head assholes. What can we do for you?”

“You can get the hell out, quit fucking around with a bunch of old bones and shit and keeping decent men from making a living.”

Callie took the mustard from Jake, sizing up the men as she dumped it on her burger. The one doing the talking was fat, but it was hard fat. He’d be solid as a tank. The other had that alcohol-induced mean in his eyes.

“Excuse me?” She set down the mustard, opened the ketchup. “I’m going to have to ask you to watch your language. My associate here is very sensitive.”

“Well, fuck him.”

“I have, actually, and it’s not bad.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“The guy—he’s an eager beaver—more eager, I’d say, because he wants to impress you. Sends you longing glances.” “He does not.” “Serious crush. I know just how he feels.” Now she snorted. “A crush is different from wanting to get a woman naked and onto any available flat surface.” “Oh. Guess I don’t know how he feels, then.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“He’d been nearly a year without her, and in all those months had run the gamut from rage to stunned hurt, from bitterness to despair, from acceptance to determination.

Some species mated for life, he thought as he stood. By God, he was one of them.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“But I did it because you can't constantly be afraid of what might happen. If you do, you lose control of what is happening, and all the joy and pain it holds for you”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“Seduced by the warm confident woman. Intrigued by the widowed single mother who seemed to effortlessly juggle all the balls in the air.
And to his utter astonishment, he fell in love with the messy, frustrated, unhappy woman with toys scattered at her feet.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“Are you naturally unfriendly, or have you just taken an instant dislike to me?"

"Just naturally unfriendly, I guess.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“things without any more information than what you’ve given me.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“didn’t surprise Jake, he’d been watching it build all along.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“sterile.” “Or they were very careful, and”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“But I did it because you can’t constantly be afraid of what might happen. If you do, you lose control of what is happening, and all the joy and pain it holds for you.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright

“him.”
― Nora Roberts, Birthright